Senior Azure DevOps Engineer – Population Health
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Department: Development (Population Health)
Reporting To: Analytics Senior Scrum Master
Location: Milton Keynes/Homebased - with the expectation to attend Graphnet Group
office sites at least once per month, or as and when required for team
collaboration days
Overview:
We are a British healthcare software development company that build and deliver market leading
applications in the integrated care record and population health space. We’ve previously been awarded
“Outstanding” by Best Companies, earning a top 100 spot in the mid-sized companies category, amongst
other accolades. Following recent successes of our solutions, we’re looking to expand and continue to
innovate in our space.
We have high ambitions and looking to bring in highly skilled individuals to help continue our adoption of
Azure-native services and building a best-of-breed scalable SaaS platform for our solutions.
The person we are looking for will need to have 5+ years enterprise experience with Azure, who can
demonstrate a real passion for cloud technologies, with strong problem solving and critical thinking, good
communication skills and a strong work ethic.
Working within an existing Analytics development team and part of a wider DevOps Consortium, the individual will have a diverse workload covering (but not limited to):
- Automation of infrastructure and software rollout using Azure DevOps pipelines, including quality
gates such as approvals and code quality scanning.
- Deploy/Maintain Infrastructure, using an IaC approach.
- Design and develop automated scaling and failover using deep health checks and insights.
- Work closely with other departments, such as Ops and TechOps, to facilitate the smooth running of
the cloud services.
- Work closely with the Security teams to analyse and help remediate on internal and SoC flagged
issues, along with assisting in internal vulnerability checks/ethical hacking
- Continuous improvement and testing of DR/BCP to ensure high availability
Personal Attributes:
- Able to work well as an individual and as part of a team
- Take part in architectural discussions with technical / non-technical team members
- Able to self-manage and self-motivate
- An eye for detail and a desire to adhere to best practices
- Strong inter-personal and communication skills
- Able to work under pressure
- Have a desire to keep up with the latest tools and techniques
Education & Skills Required:
- A deep understanding of Azure PaaS components. Key areas:
- Azure SQL
- Data Factory
- Databricks
- Power BI
- Data Lakes
- Fabric
- Proven experience with Azure DevOps (ADO)
- Solid understanding of:
- Terraform
- HELM
- Flux
- Powershell / Azure CLI
Advantageous:
- Healthcare or Government related industry experience
- Understanding of JIRA and Confluence
- Experience with AKS (deployment + management)
- Python scripting
Qualifications:
- Microsoft certification(s) in Azure, such as AZ-400 (Azure DevOps Engineer)
Experience is valued over accreditation, however, as we’re a Microsoft partner, there will be encouragement to gain accreditation during employment.